 It's take your kid to work day. Diesel, we're going trucking. We're going trucking. Wait till you see what I built you for your birthday. You're gonna be so impressed with the handiwork, the craftsmanship, the carpentry skills. He was so excited this morning, because I told him yesterday already, is that tomorrow you're gonna come down the truck with me and we're going on a trip. He knows what that means. Spent nine years over the road with me. And so for the past maybe three quarter year, he's been at home enjoying retirement. Today, diesel is happy to announce he is coming back, making a comeback, coming out of retirement. Because he loves you guys so much. I don't know if he's gonna come with me every day or not, but he'll be with me some days. He'll be with me today. We're gonna go get the truck ready and start trucking. Well, diesel, are you ready to go trucking? I think I'm just as excited as you are. Let me get my stuff in there first and I'll get your steps out and then you can take your steps up so you don't hurt yourself, okay? You're 10 years old now, man. Let's not forget, just in case. All right, I got the seat covers in. It's an old truck, but I'm still gonna do my best to protect it. So diesel in here, seats are covered, so that if I ever move out of this truck, all I really gotta do is vacuum up and take the seat covers off and don't gotta worry about him getting the seats all dirty. You know, okay, I gotta put the bed, bedding in here now. One second diesel, okay? We're almost ready. Shouldn't have put my stuff on top of your stuff. Your stuff needs to go in first. I don't know if I can, okay. Just wait one second, okay? We're not quite ready yet. This pillow is for the middle. I'm not sure yet if I wanna have this pillow here or not today because I might put his water bowl there. I think that's probably what I'm gonna do. We got this pillow here, like that. I think that'll be good. I don't think I even need the other pillow because that's a king-size pillow. It's pretty big. One second diesel, one second. Okay, and then here I've got his blanket. I think that's pretty good. What do you think? Okay, so he's got this, that, and that there, though that pillow may move to here. So I do need a place to put his water bowl. Well, trial and error. We'll try it out and see what happens. Okay, yeah, we did change it around just a little bit. That can be where his water bowl goes in the back there. That's not gonna be there. This is his water bowl, so I can cover it up while we're moving. Let's go on top of my lunch kit there. I think I gotta figure it out. I think I gotta figure it out. Let's park the pickup and get the weasel in here. See what he thinks. Let's get his first impressions. All right. Okay, diesel, wait. See the moment you've been waiting for, right? I'm ready, man. Okay, come this way. Okay, I'll start walking this way. He'll follow me. Come on, bud. Yes! Going on a truck ride. Going on a trip. Oh, what's this? What's this over here? Oh, I haven't seen this in so long. Oh, hello. Okay, Diesel, I'm gonna set up your steps, okay? Oh, it's like I got them right here. I wanna show you guys diesel. Except one second. Sorry, buddy. I'm just so excited. I'm so excited. I don't wanna wait. Great. One second. One second. I gotta figure this out. Last one. One second. Okay, go. Straight onto my seat, of course. Come here. Try it at your bed. What do you think? What do you think? Happy birthday, man. Belated birthday. Yeah? You okay with that? Good boy. Watch yourself. Don't pinch your toes. There you go. Back where he belongs. On his whistle throne. Oh my goodness. This truck is way smaller than the last one, man. What did you do? My goodness, man, you're singing small. What did you do to your back, man? Why did you take that off? Okay, Diesel, that's why I built you your bed right there. Okay, it's just for the day. And we can go home after. And see Chevy, Mom, Wiener, and Frank, everybody. But first, we're gonna go do some trucking. Oh my. At least he's a pedobeat, man. All right, Diesel. We're all hooked up. We have a roll tight behind us. You ready to go? Hold on to your butt cheeks. Here we go. West, I can tell you where they're going if you... Westland, Michigan. So let's go to the Michigan area. Best is for me, though, okay? Around the west perimeter of Winnipeg right now, our whole pass heading to on there. We'll be there probably about an hour before they're expecting us. So they might load us early, but I'm gonna let Diesel out there. A lot of stretches, likes. It shouldn't take too long to load our freighting. It's just four pieces. It's gonna take up most of the trailer, but it has four pieces and like four straps. Super easy once we get going. As long as they're ready for us, we should be out of there before one. Depends though. I mean, sometimes they get a little bit behind there and that's okay. That's okay. The main diesel will just find something to do for a walk. I said the W word. So we made it here to Toulon and the shipper's not quite ready for us yet. Be probably at least a half hour to an hour. So in the meantime, Diesel, you wanna go outside? Yeah, I'm gonna get your steps ready, okay? You just wait there. You wait there. I'm gonna go with this side. You're gonna go with that side, okay? We gotta get used to this again, right? This is my door. All right, I'll come around to that side, okay? The steps strapped to my headache rack in the back here. I'm gonna take that down and set him up there. Oh, this feels good. This feels right. Feels so good to have him with me again. Really glad I built that bed. So he's been doing really good today. Really good. He was super excited in the morning. I think the truck's a little louder than he was expecting. It's a lot louder than the old truck we were in. The highway truck was so quiet, and this one's got some pipes on her, and he wasn't quite ready for that. So I think the sound made him nervous for the first little while, but he quickly got used to it. And then he quickly got used to the bed, figured out that he could lay down and stretch out. We hit the highway and he went to sleep, just like old times. Got a little grass area back here behind the truck stop. I don't really think I need him on the leash right now. There's no one else around. We're way out here in the countryside. Diesel, come here. Diesel, come here. You gonna listen to me? You gonna be good? Come here, buddy. I wanna take your collar off. Come on, come here. And he's gone. Diesel, this way, this way. There you go. There's a happy weasel. I'm gonna head back to the truck for now. We'll pick up our load. Come on, Diesel. They should be ready for us soon. Not bad getting in and out for the first time. Here, let's give you some water. I got it in here so it doesn't splash out. There you go. Here, let me hold that up for you. There you go. It's all yours, buddy. And we got more. You need it, we got lots. You hang tight in there, Diesel. Gotta open this up. Come with me. My high-tech brake system in place here. Oops, oh, okay, I'll grab a different one then. There we go, it's not going anywhere. There's our freight right there. One, two, three, four. I believe that's it. If that's not it, it's something very similar to that. So now that we're here, I'm just gonna be able to sit in the truck and wait. I should grab my other glove. I usually wear two gloves, but I didn't wanna get you guys all dirty. Except, Diesel. Except now they're gonna put stuff on our trailer, okay? And quickly tie it down. We can get back to trucking. All right, man. You having fun, Diesel? Having fun? Having an absolute blast, man. It's like old times, you're doing great. Thanks for the bed, it's very comfy. It's cozy, thanks. Good, you got your water right here. Don't forget, I just put the lid on it so it doesn't splash while we move around. There you go. That's some weasel water right there. There's more, where that came from, okay? You are too good, man. Thank you, thank you so much. She's gonna have a little snooze if you don't mind. See that weasel nap. There she is, all ready to go. There's four pieces. Three of them are going to Michigan. One's going to Ohio. Still think of Drew Carey. Ohio, Ohio, Ohio. Every time I hear the word Ohio. She's not sitting here yet. Button up, ready to go. Diesel, how you doing, bud? You ready to go? I ain't ready, man. All right, weasel, tied down. You know what that means. It's time to go truckin', man. One for safety. Let's get out of here. Whatever it is that gets to go to Ohio and Michigan with these, but it's a really easy load for ya. All right, the roll tide is nice and greased. Oh, that's right. I gotta bring the greasable bullsnot. I gotta show you guys how much better that stuff is. I'll bring it tomorrow, okay? This trailer was already greased, but I'm sure I will run into one very soon that needs it. I'm gonna actually see for myself how much longer it's gonna last with bullsnot. I'm gonna do all the trailers with it. What do you think, Diesel? You gonna help me grease them? When Britt and I did our budget last month, we're sticking to the budget now. We're gonna have to. It's amazing. I think I said it to you guys already, that it's amazing how much you spend on the little things. I spent like 160 bucks last month just on like coffees and snacks and lunches or extra stuff. Excuse me. Ah, turning you some break off. There you go. Yeah, and you know those Starbucks in the mornings? They really add up. I know you guys have been telling me that forever, and it's not like I was surprised to see it, but I was a little bit shocked at how much I was indulging. Buying a little snacks here, a little bag of chips here, chocolate bar there, coffee here, coffee there, donut here, you know. Maybe I'd be a little extra hungry after I'd eat my lunch. I'd go out and I'd buy a sandwich for an extra little bit. I'm not that hungry every day, but some days I'm more hungry. It adds up. So now I'm bringing my own coffee to work. I bring two thermoses, plus I have a cup of coffee at home. All together, that's a full pot of coffee that I drink every day. But it only costs $6.87 for a whole tin of coffee instead of $3 for one cup of coffee. And that tin of coffee will make like, I don't know, how many pots, like 10, 15, 20 pots? Somewhere in there? All right, Diesel, we're gonna save money. Diesel got moved on to a new food this month as well because he's, I explained that yesterday, he needs more grain in his diet according to the vet. He's got a little bit of a heart murmur. That advised us to change his diet up a little bit. So we're slowly moving him over. It's a long process to move a dog over onto a new food without upsetting his stomach. And Diesel's stomach is very sensitive to any changes. So we're slowly gradually moving him over. It'll take probably about a month, maybe more, maybe two months. We're in no rush. It's not like an immediate thing that has to be done right now. You man, you keep talking about food. Are we having food shooting? You gotta wait till you get home, man. You're gonna have a nice supper tonight though. Okay? You treats along. But you did get some of my apple. Okay? Don't tell mom that I didn't give you any treats, okay? Cause I gave you part of my own apple. And I love apples. There's so many wasps everywhere. Does anybody else have the same problem? As soon as I stop and I open the windows, wasps all over the place. I've been using my hat. So wait to wipe them out of here. So far I haven't gotten stung, but some guys here have. They come to eat the bugs on the front of the truck, on the windshield and on the grill. And then as soon as you open the window, they wanna see what's inside the truck too, right? They're nosy little critters. Diesel, just don't let them sting you, okay? All right? You just punch them in the face, but you don't let them sting you back, okay? That's not very nice. I'm not going to punch this poor bee, man. It's a wasp, different than a bee. Or so I hear, I don't know. Still not nice to hate people, man. Find them, just ask them nicely to leave the truck. How about that? Diesel, you're getting more exercise in today than if you stayed at home. Who knew, eh? You go trucking and lose weight. How about that? Also got me active. He doesn't really need the leash, but while we're in the yard here, with trucks moving around here all the time, they like it if we keep dogs on leash in the yard, at least during business hours. I mean, in the middle of the night, the fence's been locked. I've let diesel tear around here all the time, in the past, but not during business hours. See, we've got a truck coming up behind us there right now. It's just better to, it's like a long leash. So he's got a lot of room to play with, but if he does need to be pulled out from in front of a moving truck or tractor or forklift, you know, I can avoid those situations. There we go, see? Nice long leash. He's not even hit the end of it yet. There's the end. It's actually made in Germany, it's eight meter leash. Got it on Amazon. First doing one lap around the yard here, and then we're probably gonna head home. So we just stay out of the way in the back here behind the trailers, safest place. So tomorrow we have our plans already. I'm gonna be grabbing a step deck, maybe even this one here. Doesn't matter which one I take. Gotta take a step deck down to Thief River again. We're going there twice. It's gonna be a long day. That's six hours there and back with loading and unloading, I think. I know you can barely get it done legally with your lot of time on the E-Log. So it'll be kind of a tight day, a little bit of a long day. We're gonna start early and we're gonna end late. But we're gonna go on two runs and Diesel's gonna come with again tomorrow because I'm gonna need the company. And I wanna test you guys a little bit. Test your knowledge of trucking companies around Manitoba here. This is a pretty big one. Whose trailer was this at one point? You see the checker pattern on there, right? That should give it away. Anyone from Winnipeg who's been around here for a while will know exactly the company. Let me know down below in the comments section what company used to put a checker pattern on the back of their trailers like that. And who bought them for bonus points? What's the company called now? Fun fact, when I was a kid, my dad used to work for that company before it was bought out. All in a hard day's work, A. Diesel. Come on, I know you want more than that. I know you, wasp there. Man, these wasps, they're just everywhere. And he went in the truck. Of course he went in the truck. Cause why wouldn't he, right? Now there's a wasp in the truck. Get out of there, get, get. Oh, I'll smack them good, Diesel. Probably gonna come back and sting me again. Don't you dare sting my dog. I will fight you. Oh, he's on the ground. He's down, he's down. Oh, he got away. Oh no. Now he's gonna go tell his friends. Well, Diesel, it looks like I just started a war. Technically, I think the bees started a war. I mean, they stung me before, unprovoked. Just landed on my finger and stung me. And I have been swatting at them for days. They probably know me as the enemy of the wasps. Yeah, well, bring it on, bud. Right, Diesel? I'll fight a wasp. Are you done with your water? Are you done? You want any more? Now you just want to go in the truck? Okay, one sec. Let me get my one-skin out of your way here. Beautiful emblem on there. All right, Diesel. There you go. So I didn't get the Rockstar welcome today when we got home. Diesel did though. Diesel, you stole my Rockstar welcome. Chevy had nothing left for me, man. Chevy, where are you? Chevy? Oh, he's inside. How was your day at home? Yeah? A lot of stuff? Stuff I've been getting behind on. I win her. Hi. Diesel. Best day ever, man. Best day ever. You tired? No? Still running high on trucking? High on life, high on trucking? We'll do it again tomorrow. It's going to be a bit of a longer day tomorrow though. And we're going to go to the US. I think so, yeah? Yeah, I'm just driving back and forth between Thief River and the yard. Got to go twice. So it was perfect day for him to come along. Fair enough. I'll just have to bring along a little snack for him if it furrowed a little further. That's right, I got to bring his vaccine records. Just like us, he needs to have vaccination records when he crosses the border. Actually, as a truck driver, they don't ask for that. When the Americans come here to visit for non-essential purposes, they have to have proof of vaccination. But as a truck driver, they haven't implemented that yet. I can still cross over without proving. I mean, if they ask, I got it on my phone. It's a digital immunization card. I can show them that I've been immunized if they want them, if they want to know. I'll have to go get those. That's one thing about crossing the border with a pet. If you take your pet to the border and you want to cross either way into Canada or into the US, you got to make sure you have their certificate of vaccination with you. Like the copy from the vet that they sign. That's proof that they've had there, you know, the distemper, their rabies and things like that. Chevy, there you are. How come I didn't get a Rockstar welcome today? You gave it all to Diesel. I was so excited to see Diesel. I missed him so much. I miss you too, Dad, a little bit. You don't think right there? Mom put you back inside because you didn't want to be out there. No one wants to be back out there. Put him inside. He wants to go outside. Put him outside. He wants to come inside. Children. So thanks for watching today, everybody. Really appreciate it. It was a special day. It was really exciting to have Diesel back on the road. If you liked it, give it the thumbs up. That helps me out a lot. Leave me a comment down below. Let me know what you think. And don't forget to subscribe and tune in tomorrow. The Weasel and I are going to be going to America.